Articles - Automating Your Business en-us http://proofpositive.com N/A http://proofpositive.com editor@proofpositive.com 20 http://proofpositive.com/articles/331/1/Sales-Process---What-Can-You-Automate/Page1.html Sales Force Automation, or SFA, is a technique used in marketing and business that automates the business tasks of sales. Sales tasks that can be automated might include contact management, order taking and fulfillment, information sharing, inventory monitoring, sales forecast analysis, and employees' performance evaluations. Using SFA improves the efficiency and effectiveness of a sales team by streamlining and speeding up processes and eliminating errors. Through this technology, a sales force can have access to the latest information regarding customers' accounts and pricing. info@proofpositive.com (Halstatt Pires.) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/330/1/Business-Process-Automation-BPA/Page1.html In today's viciously competitive business world if you want your enterprise to be agile and responsive then Business Process Automation (BPA) is the only effective solution. When you talk about automation of your enterprise, it means automating business process flows, elimination of non-value human interventions and allowing enterprise applications to communicate intelligently and share information impeccably. Let's see how Business process Automation (BPA) benefits your business: info@proofpositive.com (BluEnt eSolutions) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/329/1/6-Things-You-Must-Do-If-You-Want-To-Automate-Your-E-Business-To-Increase-Your-Profits-And-Get-Your-Life-Back/Page1.html 1. Build Targeted Email Lists You must build your own targeted lists of subscribers. This is easily done using autoresponders that let you sequentially send a series of messages to your subscribers. Entice these subscribers to join your list by giving them a valuable product/service in return. Set this process up to run without you ever having to touch it ever again - automate it. info@proofpositive.com (Ettione Stuckey) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/328/1/What-an-Automated-Web-Site-Can-Do-for-Your-Business/Page1.html Automating Automating a web site can cut out tedious tasks such as updating HTML, FTPing pages and changing site designs. Advanced automated web sites can send follow-up emails, send out newsletters, manage sales, do invoicing, track users visits and more. There is practically no function that can't be accomplished. info@proofpositive.com (Halstatt Pires.) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/327/1/How-To-Set-Up-The-Backend-Of-Your-Web-Hosting-Business/Page1.html How to Set Up Your Backend What is a backend? I'm sure many business people and "scholars" have much better definitions of this than me, but I like to think of it as the guts of the business that make things run behind the scenes. When I think of a backend as it pertains to web hosting, I consider the following elements: -Billing system -Order processing -Support system -Accounting and recordkeeping info@proofpositive.com (Eric Holmlund) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/326/1/Automating-your-customer-support/Page1.html From a personal point of view, one of the tasks that takes up a lot of my time is answering emails. It isn't just answering email that eats up the hours - sorting through and deleting spam and junk mail absorbs a lot of time too. In the good old days, I used to get a couple of spam emails a day. Now it is closer to 1000 a day! info@proofpositive.com (Richard Grady) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/325/1/Nodus-Provides-Business-Process-Automation-for-Online-Commerce/Page1.html Claremont, CA and Minneapolis, MN, July 7, 2005 - Nodus Technologies, Inc. announced at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005, the launch of eStore Solution Stack - an innovative new product that offers an end-to-end business process automation readily integrated with Microsoft® Business Solutions - Great Plains. The first of Nodus' eStore Solution Stack is targeted for online commerce process automation. It connects credit card processing to the accounting solution, expedites transaction processing, and eliminates error prone manual data re-entry by linking online commerce with the rest of the corporate financial system. info@proofpositive.com (Nodus Technologies) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/324/1/Automating-Your-Home-Based-Business---Saving-You-Time/Page1.html Today's technology gives you a multitude of programs to smooth your way to owning a highly successful business. Using automation programs are a necessity for every business. It can give you back hundreds of hours a year for the more important things in life. It's like having a personal assistant at your fingertips 24/7. info@proofpostive.com (Nell Taliercio.) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/323/1/Business-Web-Site-Hosting-and-Automation/Page1.html Business web site hosting plays a huge role in the automation of your internet-based business. Business web site hosting plans generally offer a lot of options that are not common to standard web hosting services. In order for an internet business to be automated, sometimes advanced web hosting features are necessary. Advanced services offered through business web site hosting programs may have extra costs associated with them, but the availability of such options is necessary in many cases, even if you intend to start with a small, simple website and gradually automate your online business processes. info@proofpositive.com (Christopher J Enders) Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600